Nick Postagulous
Monday, April 26, 2004
Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep
Ay, Caramba, the beeping. Behind our office is a storage box. It's not right next to our office, because it's the police's secret bomb disposal unit. We get the honor of it's presence because our offices are not packed in like the other offices downtown. Heck, when you're driving out to the plant, you think you've gone rural for a while. Well, until you get to the 10 foot tall barb wire topped fence.
But, the bomb disposal unit, like you'd expect, has a security system. That security system is located on the other side of a wall in my office. There is a part of my wall that is covered with a big ugly wooden cover. Under the cover is a big ugly non-wooden server for the whole plant, and a fiber optic relay that makes the Alpha precinct (the Dead Astronaut High School Precinct) have even faster internet that we do. Yes, because the fiber optic doesn't stop here. My office is just a spot to boost the signal.
But in any case, it's another situation like I wrote about in Stuffo: The Bleepin' Beeping. I've already called Sgt. Carter and left a message. But, you know, this time the beeping isn't driving me crazy so much. It's not so horrible.
Well, it's pretty bad. Who am I kidding?
That's Right, It's Your Boot Day
Due to the nature of my work, in that I occasionally get to get out of the office and go tromp around, I get free boots from work. It's the only way they can require me to wear steel toe while I'm out. And actually, the Iron Age Pimp Boots I'm wearing right now are actually composite toe wellingtons. $140 of high tech understatement. Not really understated, but they don't look like tactical boots, and they're comfy too.
Well, it' is boot day again. I have worn last years extremely heavy boots exactly once. These Pimp Boots are from two years ago. Now, they do have some wellingtons again, but I've had the hokey locals here say they look like Western boots, which they don't. So, I might not get Wellingtons again. In fact, I might go for some that have the mesh sides, breathable, because these pimp boots sure aren't.
Maybe Referral Week
Before I get anyone all worked up, there is exactly zero data to back up that we think we might get a referral this week. Last batch of referrals came out on the 8th of April. That covered the end of July up to August 28, 2003. Our DTC date is September 9, 2003, so we're in the next batch. And they do monthly batches.
So, why do I think that they'll come early? Because of May Day. The day all communists rise up and say, "Yay, we're communists, which sucks, but we get the next week off!" And they do. So, I'm hoping that the kind hearted communists in charge of matching dossier to kiddie file will decide to do that before their long vacation. If they don't, then we're talking about probably sometime around May 12, which ironically would be completely inline with the Statistics Page.
And running the stats with out date, if we are totally average, our referral (aka, knowing who she is) should come May 16th, which it won't since that's a Sunday, which is different than last time I checked the stats since it was Saturday the 15th. And our travel would start the 2nd of July. Which would actually rock, because it looks like I might have to take some leave without pay, and having the July 4th holiday (which is on July 5th this year as far as days off go) would give me a spare 8 hrs.
Kill Bill 2
It was great. I laughed, I cried. I wondered "how long is this going to go on" when they had a totally black screen when Beatrix Kiddo was being buried alive.
Keep Your Phone Charged, Alison
Because, see, I put her cell phone as the first call that CCAI will make when they get our referral. Everyone at CCAI totally drops everything when referrals come in until ever family has been contacted. They will call Alison, and then they'll email pictures of Nina to us at my email address.
